Chrome is particularly loathed by IT departments because you can download it, install it, and run it as a user because the program only installs to the user's application directory
Almost true, but not entirely. I happen to prefer it over Firefox because if you use the Google Pack installer, it installs to Program files and installs google updater which keeps Chrome up to date, and refuses to let the updater be tampered with (even with runas) if the current user is not admin. Plus, I can (if i really need adobe reader instead of foxit) have Google Updater keep adobe up to date
TBQH Im not terribly concerned with what google may be doing with anonymous data from the users as much as I am with the users having a browser that doesnt beg them to update by hand. At least with googlepack/chrome i can know theyre always running the current version.
Or you can call then and ream them for it, tell them that you want the damn thing turned on, and they do it. Ive dealt with this in a situation where we didnt have IE for whatever reason, and they activated it; its just not automatic.
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There's only one problem. It ain't finished yet. So we've got the same problems 801.11n had a few years ago. It's hard to implement a moving spec.
Apparently not. For those too lazy to follow link, its an addon for Chrome (dev version) that makes youtube videos run in HTML5. It cuts cpu usage in half too.
Seems to me the best way to proceed is for someone to just do it, and let everyone else try to catch up. Its not like people will stop using youtube.
The point is that every site or service has a different password. It's just stupid to use the same one in several.
I would disagree with that, there are several sites I use the same password with because they are not linked with any credit card or bank, and honestly wouldnt be a big deal to have hacked (especially since I could reset the passwords on them).
Financial or important sites, certainly use different passwords of course.
Email would be retarded anyways, if they have your wow account info its not a long shot to assume they might have your email credentials as well. At least using texting relies on "something you have and something you know" rather than "something you know, twice".
Wow, you sound like those folks who try to insist that their names are copyrighted in order to prevent people from talking about them. Has it occurred to you that photos taken of your house do NOT belong to you, but to the photographer?
There, fixed it for you. Curiously unix can generally cope with running more than one app/DB without falling over or having one app screw up the other.
A lot of the time it is the vendor recommending one app per machine, and im sure it makes their support a lot easier, but I deal with plenty of client servers running SBS 2003 with 3-5 MSSQL instances, BackupExec (with another database), Symantec Endpoint (yet another database), and BES (pretty sure that has a DB too), and it works just fine.
Making comments like this
Well that sums up running a Windows server doesn't it.
is pretty childish and inaccurate as well; I could pull up horror stories of Linux / Unix issues caused by dependencies, or app conflicts, or unavailable drivers, or updates breaking the system.... but I recognize that to claim that all *nix is trash is not valid. Why do you think its any more legitimate to label Windows as terrible just because you dont like it, or because someone in an online comment is uberparanoid about it?
Pretty sure you can adjust how much RAM Exchange 2007 sucks down, and that it sucks it down by design-- its called caching. In fact, a quick search turns up a number of articles explaining why Exchange 2007 behaves this way compared to 2003 (basically, to improve performance by minimizing disk reads-- ie cache), how it works (uses most unused memory, dynamically freeing RAM up if pressure to do so occurs-- see above link), and how you can limit the behavior (set msExchESEParamCacheSizeMax in ADSIEdit).
I mean, im all about bashing MS when they get something wrong, but throwing blame on them for using unused RAM in exactly the way its SUPPOSED to be used (caching on-disk data) is just silly.
Chrome uses a sandbox model, and it seems to do OK. Programs running in Sandboxie seem to run pretty quick too. Is it possible not all sandbox apps are created equal?
I'll also note that IE8 has more security than IE7, and yet curiously runs much faster than its predecessor. Seems like security vs speed is a false dichotomy.
Lets see, the first one linked is for an addon, the second one is for version 2.3 which was old when that was released, and the third was for a non-current version. None appear to have been 0-day exploits (except MAYBE the last one), which Adobe Reader has had plenty of.
So given that its faster, and has a better (though not perfect) track record, id say yes, it is better.
Its not retail. Its upgrade. Try nuking your partition table from linux, and then installing and activating that student copy-- it will never activate because it wasnt an upgrade.
HP, Dell, et al use standard versions of the OS. They just install extra programs, which can be removed. Theres nothing crippled about it though, and Im not sure it would be legal to sell a disk thats been modified with something like nLite.
Your argument only makes sense if you assume that your own morality beats out the morality of our laws,
That doesnt look like what he was saying at all, and YOU seem to be assuming that everyone shares the idea that morality is derived from law. There are a great many people who do NOT share that belief, but its good to know that your beliefs on morality and its source are infallible.
Agree with parent, youll need to define bloat. Session recovery? Guess what, every browser ive checked out there supports it, including Chrome. Tab close undo? Ditto. Same for a database backend (chrome has one), extensions (chrome, opera, IE all have them).
So what exactly is the bloat being referred to? I use chrome because I find it to be faster, but from recent experience Firefox 3.5 is faster than 3.0, which was much faster than 2.0, which was faster / better than 1.5, etc.
Who uses flash on youtube if you have chrome? Just install the youtube html5-ifier. Cuts CPU usage in half, works with most videos, and eliminates the need for flash or extra plugins to download the video-- just rightclick--> save.
Seems like a lot of people dont like this. But dont let that stop you from bashing groups you dont like, im sure Microsoft wont like this either. (did I do that right?)
You dont need a static IP to do email, no-ip does DDNS and allows you a single MX record. You DO need an ISP that wont filter SMTP traffic on a residential line, however.
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Sorry for double post, but forgot to mention that nothing prevents you from rolling your own GooglePack-Chrome MSI package and deploying that via GPO.
Chrome is particularly loathed by IT departments because you can download it, install it, and run it as a user because the program only installs to the user's application directory
Almost true, but not entirely. I happen to prefer it over Firefox because if you use the Google Pack installer, it installs to Program files and installs google updater which keeps Chrome up to date, and refuses to let the updater be tampered with (even with runas) if the current user is not admin. Plus, I can (if i really need adobe reader instead of foxit) have Google Updater keep adobe up to date
TBQH Im not terribly concerned with what google may be doing with anonymous data from the users as much as I am with the users having a browser that doesnt beg them to update by hand. At least with googlepack/chrome i can know theyre always running the current version.
Or you can call then and ream them for it, tell them that you want the damn thing turned on, and they do it. Ive dealt with this in a situation where we didnt have IE for whatever reason, and they activated it; its just not automatic.
Theres always chromium, you know.
There's only one problem. It ain't finished yet. So we've got the same problems 801.11n had a few years ago. It's hard to implement a moving spec.
Apparently not. For those too lazy to follow link, its an addon for Chrome (dev version) that makes youtube videos run in HTML5. It cuts cpu usage in half too.
Seems to me the best way to proceed is for someone to just do it, and let everyone else try to catch up. Its not like people will stop using youtube.
The point is that every site or service has a different password. It's just stupid to use the same one in several.
I would disagree with that, there are several sites I use the same password with because they are not linked with any credit card or bank, and honestly wouldnt be a big deal to have hacked (especially since I could reset the passwords on them).
Financial or important sites, certainly use different passwords of course.
Luckily thats not the problem theyre trying to solve, but good job reading the summary.
Email would be retarded anyways, if they have your wow account info its not a long shot to assume they might have your email credentials as well. At least using texting relies on "something you have and something you know" rather than "something you know, twice".
Wow, you sound like those folks who try to insist that their names are copyrighted in order to prevent people from talking about them. Has it occurred to you that photos taken of your house do NOT belong to you, but to the photographer?
guaranteed to have a century-plus shelf life after writing to it.
Guarenteed by whom, and what makes you sure that guarantee will be upheld in 20 years?
Also, lots of memory used =/= efficient programming.
Depends what youre doing. Caching on-disk data to speed up searches can use tons of RAM without it being a sign of defect.
There, fixed it for you. Curiously unix can generally cope with running more than one app/DB without falling over or having one app screw up the other.
A lot of the time it is the vendor recommending one app per machine, and im sure it makes their support a lot easier, but I deal with plenty of client servers running SBS 2003 with 3-5 MSSQL instances, BackupExec (with another database), Symantec Endpoint (yet another database), and BES (pretty sure that has a DB too), and it works just fine.
Making comments like this
Well that sums up running a Windows server doesn't it.
is pretty childish and inaccurate as well; I could pull up horror stories of Linux / Unix issues caused by dependencies, or app conflicts, or unavailable drivers, or updates breaking the system.... but I recognize that to claim that all *nix is trash is not valid. Why do you think its any more legitimate to label Windows as terrible just because you dont like it, or because someone in an online comment is uberparanoid about it?
Pretty sure you can adjust how much RAM Exchange 2007 sucks down, and that it sucks it down by design-- its called caching. In fact, a quick search turns up a number of articles explaining why Exchange 2007 behaves this way compared to 2003 (basically, to improve performance by minimizing disk reads-- ie cache), how it works (uses most unused memory, dynamically freeing RAM up if pressure to do so occurs-- see above link), and how you can limit the behavior (set msExchESEParamCacheSizeMax in ADSIEdit).
I mean, im all about bashing MS when they get something wrong, but throwing blame on them for using unused RAM in exactly the way its SUPPOSED to be used (caching on-disk data) is just silly.
Chrome uses a sandbox model, and it seems to do OK. Programs running in Sandboxie seem to run pretty quick too. Is it possible not all sandbox apps are created equal?
I'll also note that IE8 has more security than IE7, and yet curiously runs much faster than its predecessor. Seems like security vs speed is a false dichotomy.
Lets see, the first one linked is for an addon, the second one is for version 2.3 which was old when that was released, and the third was for a non-current version. None appear to have been 0-day exploits (except MAYBE the last one), which Adobe Reader has had plenty of.
So given that its faster, and has a better (though not perfect) track record, id say yes, it is better.
Its not retail. Its upgrade. Try nuking your partition table from linux, and then installing and activating that student copy-- it will never activate because it wasnt an upgrade.
You could just keep a copy of the OEM ISO and use that, you know.... Pretty sure they work on all OEMs.
HP, Dell, et al use standard versions of the OS. They just install extra programs, which can be removed. Theres nothing crippled about it though, and Im not sure it would be legal to sell a disk thats been modified with something like nLite.
Your argument only makes sense if you assume that your own morality beats out the morality of our laws,
That doesnt look like what he was saying at all, and YOU seem to be assuming that everyone shares the idea that morality is derived from law. There are a great many people who do NOT share that belief, but its good to know that your beliefs on morality and its source are infallible.
Agree with parent, youll need to define bloat. Session recovery? Guess what, every browser ive checked out there supports it, including Chrome. Tab close undo? Ditto. Same for a database backend (chrome has one), extensions (chrome, opera, IE all have them).
So what exactly is the bloat being referred to? I use chrome because I find it to be faster, but from recent experience Firefox 3.5 is faster than 3.0, which was much faster than 2.0, which was faster / better than 1.5, etc.
Who uses flash on youtube if you have chrome? Just install the youtube html5-ifier. Cuts CPU usage in half, works with most videos, and eliminates the need for flash or extra plugins to download the video-- just rightclick--> save.
Seems like a lot of people dont like this. But dont let that stop you from bashing groups you dont like, im sure Microsoft wont like this either. (did I do that right?)
they have named employees on youtube quite a lot for a "faceless megacorporation", and Sergey Brin isnt exactly a recluse.
How exactly are you defining faceless?
Thats not irony, its...bah, forget it.
You dont need a static IP to do email, no-ip does DDNS and allows you a single MX record. You DO need an ISP that wont filter SMTP traffic on a residential line, however.